Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang

The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (VNQDD), known as the Vietnamese Nationalist Party in English, was a democratic socialist political party in Vietnam that existed from 1927 to 1975. The party was founded by a group of young Hanoi-based intellectuals who began publishing revolutionary material, supporting the independence of French Indochina. The party modelled itself on the Republic of China's Kuomintang, and the party began a campaign of assassinations targeting French officials and Vietnamese collaborators after 1928. After the killing of a despised French labor recruiter in 1929, the VNQDD was subjected to a crackdown, during which 400 of its 1,500 members were detained. The party was weakened by an internal split that same year, and its attempt at an army mutiny in 1930 was met with failure. During the 1930s, the Communist Party of Vietnam eclipsed the power of the moderate socialist VNQDD, which was purged after the end of World War II by CPV leader Ho Chi Minh (despite having fought alongside the CPV during the guerrilla war against Japan). The remnants of the VNQDD fled to capitalist South Vietnam, where they remained until the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. The party still had adherents among international Vietnamese, even after its downfall.